KEXP Reviews

The Swedish hard rockers have streamlined their sound for their latest album, which brilliantly encapsulates a variety of their head-banging influences. You can still hear some Motorhead, Ramones and especially Detroit's MC5 in their sound, but now the likes of Thin Lizzy, Lynyrd Skynyrd and KISS are perhaps even more prominent. More important, the punchy, riff-heavy songs are their strongest batch to date and hold up well to their '70s forebears while not being overwhelmed by them. 4/15/2002
- Don Yates